The loss of Kahlief Myrick and other students who have been killed by gun violence weigh heavily on South Philadelphia High School as the new school year begins.
Romel Hunte is appealing for help for his family and himself. He lost everything he owned during a fire on Sunday in 2nd Avenue Thomas Gap, President Kennedy Drive, St Michael, which engulfed his home as well as another belonging to a relative, Crystal Boyce, who lived with her four children, brother and father. Hunte lived with his mother Deborah Shorey-Boyce, stepfather Mark Shorey and siblings Dario Boyce and Daniht …
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Three fire tenders responded to a blaze at President Kennedy Drive, St Michael. (Picture by Lennox Devonish) Social Share
Thirty-one-year-old Crystal Boyce, her four children and father were among 15 people left without shelter after fire ripped through three houses this morning.
The blaze, which started just after 10 a.m., destroyed two houses and severely damaged another two-storey home in President Kennedy Drive, St Michael. Residents in all three homes are related and only the two-storey building, home to seven people, was insured.
Boyce said she was cooking when she realised that a section of the house was on fire. She raced to pull her four-year-old son from the bedroom and sounded the alarm. Nothing was saved but she was glad they escaped with their lives.
A 16-year-old was killed outside a 7-Eleven after looking at a man who took it the wrong way, police say Julie Shaw, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Police are searching for a gunman who they say killed a 16-year-old outside a 7-Eleven in Southwest Philadelphia last week because the teen looked at him in a way that made him feel disrespected.
“What are you looking at?” police say the man asked the teen when the two encountered each other inside the store.
“What are you looking at?” Kahlief Myrick responded, according to his family.
The man, believed to be in his mid-20s, waited outside for the teen to leave the store and then shot him in the chest, police said.